1. |
Leaving Partsong
03:34
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Leaving Part Song
I stayed in their forsaken place too long
Now I leave, rejoice, and sing a song.....
Door or busted window
Walk or climb out -
I go....
And I go too
And sing with you....
Greet the new and greet the unknown
No fear of the new and unknown...
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2. |
My Genessee
03:35
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My Genessee
I'll never take 70 again
to my Genessee
Won't watch the buffalo graze by the road -
they're roaming farther off anyhow
Won't see sunlight dappled through its trees
see your tears sink into the snow
or hear our laughter by evening
as we head back to Golden
I'll never walk those foothills again
or know them as my own
The mystery of the fields is long gone
and the sadness of it stays in my heart
Won't hear your sweet voice call out to me
or feel love like an open sky ever again
You are gone
And to that
I now reconcile
I'll never go back to Genessee
But it'll always be within my mind
And though the questions are left unanswered
I let them go
I let them go
Let you go
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3. |
Ride the Wave
04:10
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Ride the Wave
That's how it goes
C'est la vie
Floating on a cloud
then thrown in the mud
regretting, crying
That's how it goes
C'est la vie
When you're down
no one's there
But you'll rise on your own
once again
Rolling rising cresting crashing wave....
Waves undulating....
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4. |
East River
02:09
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East River
Looking out onto the East River
Wind whips across the icy water
Gulls swoop above in ecstatic loops
A wing brushes my face
And I sing Ooohh
I walk towards South Street
Passed square dances,
Step Up to Seven Stars
It's snowing
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5. |
Don't Care Partsong
03:08
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Don't Care Partsong
I don't care anymore.....
All your words now fall away
Like the autumn leaves they scatter...
You're a dream now fade away...
You were a wake in water long gone...
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6. |
LES Jab
03:12
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LES Jab
Hurts but now I must confess
I thought we were pretty intimate
Then you told me that whatever you said
never meant anything at all
Shook me to my core
Who was I really talking to?
You said you played for laughs
You stayed as long as it was
fake and superficial
You said it's all been said before
But the conversation kept going
You said it's all been done before
Your strategy was your undoing
There was nothing left to say
Honestly, I couldn't face the truth
There was nothing left to do
And I couldn't stop the pain
It was so lonely knowing you
It was so lonely not knowing you
And it was a lonely lonely end
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7. |
Ore Gold Silver
04:13
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Ore Gold Silver
Ore gold silver
delirium's hollowing hills
Picks hit
sparks fly
Be it for riches or the rags
Heard there's a boom
so I come here
through the camps of ol' Clear Creek
In the canyon I go ramblin' -
be in Leadville in a week
My head's filled with dreams of riches
and an easy shiny life
but on my way ghosts give warning
“What's ahead is
soul-wrecking strife”
Ore gold silver
Ore gold silver
Got a wage now
working hell's shafts
piling rock onto the carts
And at night I drown in lightning
till I go numb and black it out
One by one
brothers sisters babies
leave this earth by winter's freeze
I see them float up to the angels
it brings me to my knees
Oh I cry out oh I cry out
my dreams have forsaken me
And I drift back into the shafts
singing “Lead, Kindly Light”
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8. |
Bygones
03:05
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Bygones
The actor stood frozen for an eternity
The stage creaked, the lines would not come
“Oh, Silence” he said aloud
Phone lights popped like stars
He walked off
The crowd turned on itself
Now he runs out into the night
down Theater Row
Flies up passed Time Square
and the city glow
Thinks to himself
Bygones, what's done is done
Gonna do the Samba till the sun comes up
Bygones, what's done is done
Gonna do the Samba till the sun comes up
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9. |
Garden Story
03:31
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Garden Story
Pricked by the thorn of a budding red rose
Blood spots his hand and runs down the stem
To the most perfect ones a cut and sigh
As he appraises the beauty dies
He walks under arches of wisteria climbs
Trained and contorted for shade and delight
Hums as he poisons her in the undergrowth
Crows in the trees watch and damn him as he goes
Tell me oh tell me
What grows in your garden there
By the foxglove, lady slipper and maiden hair
Watered with tears and pruned with gray despair
Tell me oh tell me.....
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Moon's Aura (Night Tripartite 1)
The moon's aura fills the sky
Below the night is inky black
with shadows and scrawling -
my ruined dream dream dream
He lived in my ruins to sing
that he never loved or believed me
Now he's an old worn out toy
dissolving away away away
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Sleep! (Night Tripartite 2)
SLEEP.....sleep...
sleep...Sleep...sleep.
Sleep... SLEEP...sleep...
sleep
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Time Has Passed (Night Tripartite 3)
Time has passed
so glad you never showed
I give my thanks for now and here
The sky light up
My wishes fade
The beautiful sun reappears
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13. |
So Much Fun Partsong
02:21
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So Much Fun Partsong
I am having so much fun ha ha ha...
I am having so much fun ha ha ha...
I am having so much fun ha ha ha...
I am having so much fun ha ha ha...
I am having so much fun ha ha ha...
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